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Re: Crop Rotation? & Tomato buckets

Why on earth would you be afraid of telling this to a serious gardener? I
think it sounds like a great idea. In Tacoma there's a guy who grows about
12 buckets worth of tomatoes in the big pickle buckets you can get at fast
food joints. He just stakes them and lets them climb. They always look good
and he grows them right in his driveway -- great use of space.

Recently on the rec.gardens newsgroup there's been a discussion about NOT
rotating Tomatoes. The reasoning behind this is that tomatoes send
especially deep roots, so if you plant them in the same place year after
year, the roots don't have to work as hard to dig as deep. In addition the
consensus seemed to be that tomato diseases are mostly airborn (primarily
wilt) or a problem with inconsistent watering, so rotating them would not
benefit the tomatoes.

What we have a problem with is where to plant our cucumbers each year,
especially since theoretically they shouldn't be planted in the same space
as tomatoes. We don't want to stick the cucumber trellis in the middle of
the plot because of the shade factor, but I think we'll have to this year.

We a raised 8' x 5' plot,  a 12 x 9 foot ground level plot, plus 4 cut
circles for pole beans and squash, and soon we'll have another 12 x 4 foot
plot in our parking strip -- 11 squares in other words). And we're just now
sitting down to look at seed catalogs and drool ;-b..

--Natalie

>I did something this year I wouldn't admit to any serious gardener, but it
>worked.


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Publisher/Editor Mac Net Journal
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